s_ were
looked upon as being too _soft_ and _yielding_ a nature; _too good, too
charitable, too liberal_ to the poor! In order that the select vestry may
have an agent suited to the purposes that the Act _manifestly has in
view_, the Act authorizes the select vestry to appoint what is called an
"_assistant overseer_," and to _give him a salary out of the poor-rates_.
Such is this Jubilee-Act, one of the last Acts of the Jubilee-reign, that
reign, which gave birth to the American war, to Pitt, to Perceval,
Ellenborough, Sidmouth, and Castlereagh, to a thousand millions of taxes
and another thousand millions of debt: such is the Select Vestry Act; and
this now little trifling village of UPHUSBAND _has a Select-Vestry_! Aye,
and an "ASSISTANT OVERSEER," too, with a _salary_ of FIFTY POUNDS A YEAR,
being, as you will presently see, about a SEVENTH PART OF THE WHOLE OF THE
EXPENDITURE ON THE POOR!

69. The Overseers make out and cause to be _printed_ and _published_, at
the end of every _four weeks_, an account of the disbursements. I have one
of these accounts now before me; and I insert it here, word for word, as
follows:--

70. "The disbursements of Mr. T. Child and Mr. C. Church, bread at 1_s._
2_d._ per gallon. Sept. 25th, 1826.

WIDOWS.

L. s. d. L. s. d.
Blake, Ann 0 8 0
Bray, Mary 0 8 0
Cook, Ann 0 7 6
Clark, Mary 0 10 0
Gilbert, Hannah 0 8 0
Marshall, Sarah 0 10 0
Smith, Mary 0 8 0
Westrip, Jane 0 8 0
Withers, Ann 0 8 0
Dance, Susan 0 8 0
--------- 4 3 6

BASTARDS.

---- ---- 0 7 0
---- ---- 0 6 0
---- ---- 0 7 0
---- ---- 0 6 0
---- ---- 2 children 0 12 0
---- ---- 2 children 0 12 0
---- ---- - 10 0
---- ---- -